Can the Temperature in Your Office Make You Sick?

You know the struggle, never knowing which extreme your office will be from one day to the next — it’s either burning hot or freezing cold, with seemingly no in-between. Frankly, it raises a lot of questions. How do you dress for this? Are there rules about space heaters? Is it Friday yet? And then there’s this one: can these constantly changing temperatures make you sick?

“Temperature has very little effect on if you get sick at work,” Keith Roach, MD, internist at New York-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine, told POPSUGAR. “What really determines if you’re going to get sick is if the people around you are sick.”